Activities at the November 1 Wednesday Strategy
Lunch chaired by Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation/National
Empowerment Television.

Congressmen Launch Effort to Keep U.S. Troops From
Deployment in Bosnia

Rep. Mark Neumann (R-WI) and Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) discussed
their opposition to deploying U.S. troops as peacekeepers in Bosnia.
Said Neumann: "We are at D-Day on the Bosnia issue. [Congress
has] passed a resolution that is non-binding... [but] Speaker
Gingrich as told us that if you want to keep troops from going
to Bosnia then the way to do it is through the appropriations
process. The logical way is through the Defense Appropriations
bill... when the Defense Appropriations bill goes back to Conference
we have to contact those folks and make sure [a provision banning
use of Defense funds for a Bosnia deployment] is in it when it
comes out of conference." Said Stockman: "The President
is listening to the United Nations more than to Congress. If you
look at the restrictions being placed on our soldiers... they
can't fight back... this is crazy... my fear is that we're going
to get over there and it will be a quick quagmire." Rep.
Neumann later added: "U.S. troops under foreign command lined
up alongside Russian soldiers as a neutral peacekeeping force
in a country where we've just bombed the living daylights out
of one side makes no sense to me and makes no sense to the people
of Bosnia. We say 'no' to troops in Bosnia." Rep. Neumann
quotes Speaker Gingrich from the June 7, 1995 Congressional Record:
"You want to cut off troops to Haiti or Somalia or you want
to cut off troops in Bosnia, there is an easy way to do it. It
is called the power of the purse... In fact, we have done it before.
In the case of Lebanon, we did it. In the case of Somalia, we
did it. We used the appropriations process exactly as the Federalist
Papers described and exactly as the Founding Fathers wanted, as
we had a clean and decisive choice." Conferees on the DOD
Appropriations bill are: Reps. Bill Young (R-FL), Joseph McDade
(R-PA), Bob Livingston (R-LA), Jerry Lewis (R-CA), Joe Skeen (R-MN),
David Hobson (R-OH), Henry Bonilla (R-TX),. George Nethercutt
(R-WA), Ernest Istook (R-OK), John Murtha (D-PA), Norman Dicks
(D-WA), Charlie Wilson (D-TX), Bill Hefner (D-NC), Senators Ted
Stevens (R-AK), Thad Cochran (R-MS), Arlen Specter (R-PA), Pete
Domenici (R-NM), Phil Gramm (R-TX), Kit Bond (R-MO), Mitch McConnell
(R-KY), Connie Mack (R-FL), Richard Shelby (R-AL), Mark Hatfield
(R-OR), Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Fritz Hollings (D-SC), J. Bennett
Johnston (D-LA), Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT).
Rep. Neumann has a press release available. Contact Rep Neumann
via Rob Watters at 202/225-3031 or Rep. Stockman at 202/225-6565.

Conservative Leaders Have A Message for Colin Powell:
Don't Run

Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation and National Empowerment
Television, Republican National Committeeman Morton Blackwell
and Gordon Jones of the Association of Concerned Taxpayers announced
that they are sponsoring a press conference November 2 to discuss
a possible presidential candidacy by Colin Powell. Said Weyrich:
"If [Powell runs] this is the high-water mark for him --
he's going to be attacked vigorously for what he stands for."
Said Blackwell: "I predict [a Powell] candidacy, if he runs,
will be a brief phenomenon. More than thirty years ago, the liberal
media tried to foist a series of Eastern Establishment Republicans
on the GOP for its 1964 presidential candidate. In turn, there
were Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Governor Nelson Rockefeller
and Governor William Scranton. Time and Newsweek cover stories
and lavish network TV coverage produced boomlets for each. But
the GOP conservatives won. Thus it will be in 1996, if Powell
runs." Blackwell continued: "The handful of conservatives
who are booming the Powell candidacy have taken leave of their
senses." Contact Paul Weyrich at 202/546-3003, Morton Blackwell
at 703/321-8580 or Gordon Jones at 202/785-0494.

Senator Paul Coverdell, Peter Ferrara of Americans for Tax
Reform and Gordon Jones of the Association of Concerned Taxpayers
reviewed the deletion of Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) from
the Medicare bill in the Senate (Ferrara saying: "Basically,
Senator Dole dropped the ball on this. Dole can repair this problem
if he puts his mind to it.") and budget reconciliation. A
press conference will be held on this Nov. 3 at 10 AM at the National
Press Club. Contact Gordon Jones at 202/785-0494, Peter Ferrara
at 202/785-0202 or Sen. Coverdell via Carl Parks at 202/224-3643.

Project 21 Condemns Use of "N-Word" By
Member of Congressional Leadership

The African-American leadership group Project 21 has released
a press release expressing outrage over the use of a racial slur
by Senate Minority Whip Wendell Ford (D-KY) during a WHAS radio
interview on Louisville, Kentucky's "Jane Norris Show."
According to page six of the November 2 Washington Post, a caller
told Sen. Ford, "I'm not near as rich as you, Senator."
Ford's response was: "Well, I'm not nigger rich, either."
Ford explained later to WHAS: "I thought the caller used
an offensive racial epithet. I was so shocked and offended that
I shot back at him, and I repeated what I thought the caller said
to emphasize how offensive it was to me." Excerpts from comments
in the press release include: Project 21's Raynard Jackson, a
business consultant, says "...If the movie Mark Fuhrman
Goes to Washington' is ever made, the Senator would make a good
leading man. Why aren't the Democrats denouncing this? If a member
of the Republican Congressional leadership had said that, the
Black Caucus would have held a million man march about it... Where
is the outrage?" Asks Project 21 Chairman Edmund Peterson:
"Is this yet another example of where we're supposed to separate
the message from the messenger?... It seems that the media and
liberal members of Congress are applying a double standard. Racial
slurs made by proponents of the liberal agenda are ignored or
excused... Meanwhile, conservatives who even come close to violating
certain racial sensitivities are driven out of town. There are
now two types of racists in America: the good racists and the
bad racists. Mr. Ford, it seems that the silence of your liberal
colleagues and the media makes you a good racist." "I
am shocked and appalled... this is completely and totally inappropriate
for public discourse," said Project 21 member Horace Cooper,
who is also the Legislative Counsel to Majority Leader Dick Armey
(R-TX). "There are no circumstances under which this is appropriate.
If a member of the Republican leadership had said something of
a similar nature, the Washington Post would have made it a page
one story." Contact Arturo Silva or Michael Session at 202/543-4110.

Senators Take Action to Keep U.S. Soldiers from
Being Forced to Serve Under U.N. Command

Following similar action by House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-TX),
Rep. Helen Chenoweth (R-ID) and others, Senators Larry Craig (R-ID),
Phil Gramm (R-TX) and others have introduced in the Senate legislation,
S. 1370, to end the requirement that Members of the U.S. Armed
Forces wear United Nations uniform items. Contact Dick Ribbentrop
of Senator Gramm's office at 202/224-2934.

Public, Business and Policy Groups Support Limits
on Lobbying by Taxpayer-Subsidized Groups

By a 70% to 26% margin, the public agrees "that tax dollars
shouldn't be used to fund groups to lobby government," says
an October 31 Wall Street Journal editorial widely distributed
on Capitol Hill. Also receiving wide distribution on Capitol Hill
is a November 2 letter signed by several dozen business and policy
groups urging support for limitation to lobbying by groups receiving
taxpayer funding.